The number of rookie cards in a variety pack of baseball cards is normally distributed with a mean of 3 cards and the standard deviation of 1 card. If you purchase 10 variety packs, approximately how many packs would have between 2-4 rookie cards?

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Answer:

[tex] z = \frac{2-3}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{10}}}=-3.163[/tex]

[tex] z = \frac{4-3}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{10}}}=3.163[/tex]

[tex]P(-3.163<z<3.163)=P(z<3.163)-P(z<3.163)[/tex]

[tex]P(-3.163<z<3.163)=P(z<3.163)-P(z<3.163)= 0.9992 -0.00078= 0.99842[/tex]

So then we will expect 9.98 packages between 2-4 rookie cards in the sample of 10

Step-by-step explanation:

Let X the random variable that represent the number of rookie cards of a population, and for this case we know the distribution for X is given by:

[tex]X \sim N(3,1)[/tex]  

Where [tex]\mu=3[/tex] and [tex]\sigma=1[/tex]

We select a sample size of n = 10 variety packs and we want to find this probability:

[tex]P(2<\bar X<4)[/tex]

We can use the z score formula given by:

[tex]z=\frac{x-\mu}{\frac{\sigma}{\sqrt{n}}}[/tex]

If we apply this formula to our probability we got this:

We can find the z score for 2 and 4 and we got:

[tex] z = \frac{2-3}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{10}}}=-3.163[/tex]

[tex] z = \frac{4-3}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{10}}}=3.163[/tex]

So we can find the probability with this difference

[tex]P(-3.163<z<3.163)=P(z<3.163)-P(z<3.163)[/tex]

And using the normal standard distirbution or excel we got:

[tex]P(-3.163<z<3.163)=P(z<3.163)-P(z<3.163)= 0.9992 -0.00078= 0.99842[/tex]

So then we will expect 9.98 packages between 2-4 rookie cards in the sample of 10